The Madness of History

In The Madness of History, Mara Rustic comes face to face with the demons that have destroyed both her family and her ancestral homeland, Yugoslavia. This novel covers the three critical periods in Mara’s life: her early childhood in Toronto; her adolescence, when Mara matures intellectually, politically, and sexually; and the present, with an adult Mara travelling to war-torn Yugoslavia to learn the secrets behind her father’s abandonment, and to meet her brother, a soldier broken in spirit in the Serb army. The Madness of History is a remarkable first novel by N.J. Dodic. He is the author of a collection of stories, All the Way to Aceldama.